Quickly Remove Items from Windows XP Startup
Do you sigh when it comes to starting up your computer because it takes what seems an eternity to boot up? Here is a quick tip which should make your computer start up faster by removing startup items quickly.
Click on Start >> Run and in the run line type in "msconfig" hit enter or click on OK.
Next click on the Start Up tab. By default all items are usually checked, but you can remove any items that you don't feel need to be running when you start your computer.
After you have made your selection, click Apply, OK and Restart. You should now notice a remarkable improvement in your start up time.
Mysticgeek is the resident IT expert at How-To Geek and a huge rock music fan. When he's not writing about Microsoft Office, he's probably writing at his personal blog. This article was written on 06/30/07 and tagged with: Windows
I am really into want to speed up my computer's startup time but since I'm a novice to advanced modifications, what services you should never ever disable or which ones that are seemly just not needed anymore to keep enabled?
Services are completely different than the start up programs. There are services you can disable by typing services.msc into the run line. If your not comfortable changing these, I would leave them alone. As far as the start up programs are concerned, technically you don't need any of them to start up on boot. You will probably want to leave your anti-virus program to auto start though… unless you can remember to start it up every time you log on.
well i did the following steps but after i do this and restart the comptuer this thing pops up and says to put on regular mode or something like that and the system config pops up again and it comes up everytime how can i fix this?
yeah same question as jeffrey !. how to stop that annoying popup everytime u boot ur computer.
I am having a problem with Outlook attachments; my operating system is Windows XP. Well this is the problem…When I place an attachment in Outlook and send the e-mail the recipient is getting multiple copies of the same attachment. Recently I sent an e-mail with three attachments and there were forty copies of the attachments when the recipent recieved it. I wondering what the fix may be to this issue.
I have a ton of startup programs I don't know how they got there but would like to remove what i don't need
for my startup.
what do i do or how can I identify them. to make sure that I don't remove things that will cause me problems?
I have a ton of startup programs I don't know how they got there but would like to remove what i don't need
for my startup.I have X.P.Home vesion
what do i do or how can I identify them. to make sure that I don't remove things that will cause me problems?
I would just disable all of them … and if something doesn't start up such as your anti-virus program you can go back and recheck that item. If you move the Command tab over to the right you will see the path of the application which should help you determine what it is.